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It's The Stranger's urban utopia!

Now if we could only reduce everyone's living space down to 500 square feet, eliminate cars, families with children and eliminate old people, the transformation will be complete.

Seattle could become one giant Capitol Hill and it would be totally awesome! (for real estate developers...)
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Instead of the Capitol Hill Block Party, there would be a Vaudeville renaissance, the Wilson/Obama years will be followed by roaring 20's. Phone numbers will be four digits again and we'll go through live operators.

Sorry, I know I am being silly Charles - please fix those typos but keep the nostalgia.
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@1's dystopia: We can all live in oversized, energy-inefficient McMansions, never stop building roads, and move poor/single/working-class people to the gulags and ghettos!

In other words: hyperbole much?
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Sounds good...I've been seeing 60% price drops on some houses here in the hinterland.
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We certainly see it on the ground here in downtown Ballard. There are two construction projects -- infill townhomes, not apartments -- visible from our kitchen window. Walking to the grocery store we pass five apartment construction projects, ranging from a hole in the ground to nearly complete. The aPodment construction is the only one that has a fence.

These are fairly small lots, usually were once single-family homes. The projects going up at 56th & 20th, 59th & 24th, and 65th & 24th are all much larger.
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@5 there's a lot of that going on in the CD too.
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With all these rental spaces opening up I can't wait for the $2000 a month rents. Well, at least that's what they'll start out at. In another few decades we might finally have enough of them to meet demand. The rents are way too damn high, I'll probably be living with roommates well into my 30's. If Amazon does another expansion I'd expect a minimum of $2500 for these new spaces. Ahh capitalism sure is perfect.

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